Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abolish the Court- the legislature was entirely in the hands of his opponents. Now the Supreme Court has shorn the Industrial Court of much of its power, Governor Davis thinks the opportune moment has come. He announced that he was considering an extra session of the legislature to repeal the Industrial Court law. Said he: " There is no reason for further squandering the gorgeous sums of money which the State has spent on a court which does not function and is now virtually without power and authority. Its abolition would, in my opinion, save the taxpayers more than...
...attempt. Samuel Gompers declared: " Labor maintained from the outset that the Kansas law was in violation of the Constitution because it imposed compulsory labor." If the Republican legislature should care to take the chance of antagonizing labor, and perhaps employers as well, it might, however, refuse to repeal...
...That the repeal of the state prohibition law will do away with the present system of double jeopardy whereby a man can be punished twice for one offence...
...significance for the Nation. Governor Smith's action lent a new inspiration to the Wet cause. Already a movement is under way to attempt a similar repeal of a state enforcement law in Wisconsin, although it is, to say the least, dubious of success. The outcome in New York will also place renewed burdens on the already overtasked Federal Prohibition Department. It also may help to force prohibition into one of the leading issues of the 1924 cam-paign.-if the two great parties dare to take it up, or can agree within their ranks on what stand...
Andrew J. Volstead, ex-congress-man from Minnesota: "Hearing that Governor Smith of New York had signed a repeal of the state prohibition act, I remarked: 'If I had been Governor, I would have vetoed...